How to Load Group Members

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Enable Group Members Loading

To load group members, right-click on the report name and choose Customize Report from the context menu. Then, within the Report Wizard, navigate to the Membership page.

Group members Membership Settings

To activate the loading of membership for the selected report, check the Load Group Members checkbox.

Group Members select attributes settings

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Membership Settings

The available membership settings are:

Load direct members only

When this option is selected, only direct group members will be loaded, excluding any nested groups.

Load direct members including nested members

When this option is selected, both direct group members and nested group members will be loaded.

Include nested group names

This option is enabled when the Load direct members including nested members is selected. In addition to nested group members, the names of nested groups will also be loaded.

Include primary membership

If a selected group serves as the primary group for certain members, those members will be loaded for the selected group. For instance, in the properties of the test user within Active Directory Users and Computers, it is evident that "Domain Users" functions as the primary group for this user.

AD Reports selected object properties

Distinguished Names only

When selected, the option loads only the Distinguished Names of the group members.

Select Member Attributes

Enabling this option will activate the Group Members panel, allowing you to choose the desired columns/attributes to load for the members.

AD Reports Group Membership Attributes

Please note that this option may result in slower performance compared to "Load Distinguished Names Only." It requires AD Reports to scan and load additional attributes for every group member in each group included in the current report.

Translate Foreign Security Principals to NT Account

This option improves the readability of names and converts them accordingly.

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AD Reports Foreign Security Principals

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AD Reports Foreign Security Principals translated

Display number of members for each Group

Enabling this option will show the number of members for each group at the footer of the detailed grid.

AD Reports Group Members number

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View the Results

Click the Save & Close button to save the report settings for the selected report. The report will be reloaded with the saved membership settings. If the small plus button is active, you can click it to expand the members of the selected group.

AD Reports membership report loaded

To preview the print layout of this report, click on the Print Preview button.

AD Reports Print Preview report with membership

Alternatively, you can export the report directly from the grid by clicking on the Export Report To button. From there, you can choose any of the available exporting options to save the report in your desired format.

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